Jira 5.0 Milestone 4 Early Access Preview

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The Jira developers have been hard at work on version 5.0, and we’re happy to announce the availability of milestone 4 via the Early Access Program. There are lots of great Jira improvements to check out in this milestone, so read on.

Focus on Integrations

Jira 5.0 is focused on features for partners, plugin developers, and integration developers. If you develop commercial plugins, custom plugins, or integrate Jira to other applications, this is a key release to get to know as early as possible – and you can use this to get a head start on making your existing plugins work with Jira 5.0.

This milestone includes:

a new stable API for Jira

the addition of create & edit for issues in the Jira REST API

a new REST and Java API for adding activities to the Activity Stream

a new feature, “Remote Issue Links”, to associate any external object with Jira

Learn More

Both the release notes and the plugin developer notes are available for Jira 5.0. Check out these two key features we’ve been working on to make your integration with Jira even better.

Get Started

As always, we’d love your feedback, especially since developers are a key audience for the integration features in 5.0. The earlier we receive comments, the higher the chance we can incorporate feedback!